Questions

151. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when section 22 of the Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Act 2024 will be commenced; whether removal of the automatic loss of the audit exemption for the first instance of late filing of the annual return at the CRO will be in place before the next annual return; and if he will make a statement on the…

152. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the means by which his Department will be co-ordinating with the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to consider the case for semiconductor subsidies, in the context of the upcoming review of the National Development Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22830/25]

153. Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will support the allocation of additional resources to the Department of Education to fund a proposed scheme where caretakers are paid directly by a Department body; if he will ensure that small rural DEIS schools, such as a school (details supplied), receive adequate funding to cover essential maintenance and upkeep; and if she will make a s…

154. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether her Department has investigated the costs associated with providing funding for the mandatory ‘Tréimhse Foghlama sa Ghaeltacht’ for all student teachers, including public and private colleges and including higher education institutions transport costs; if she will share these costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22775/25]

155. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason that funding under the emergency works scheme was refused for urgent repairs to the playground of a school (details supplied) given recent injuries to children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22022/25]

156. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she or her Department plan to enhance communication between her Department and the NCSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22052/25]

157. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason the NCSE does not record the demand for mild learning classes; and if there is a plan to implement records. [22053/25]

158. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason gradates of inclusive education cannot work solely for children with additional needs and are instead being made go through the Teaching Council for mainstream schools. [22054/25]

159. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she recognises the need for a specialised route into special education teaching; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22055/25]

160. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if it is the case that funding constraints mean that the breakfast clubs at schools, including in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11, are forced to cancel; the number of schools affected by this; if she will immediately address this funding shortfall and ensure the continuation and re-instatement of breakfast clubs in these schools; and if s…

161. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide an update on the current status of a project (details supplied), including a delivery timeline. [22067/25]

162. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide details of unfilled and vacant posts currently in primary schools in North Kildare, including those unfilled from maternity or other long-term leave, in tabular form. [22068/25]

163. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide an update on the school reconfiguration programme at primary level for 2025, including schools currently engaged in the process. [22069/25]

164. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Youth to comment on options available to parents of children with additional needs who wish to make complaints about the treatment of their children in schools (details supplied); beyond complaints to Boards of Management the recourse parents have when they feel their children have been badly treated or their rights infringed upon [22093/25]

165. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Youth to give a detailed account of guidelines and training given to teachers, SNAs and other school staff in relation to "challenging behaviour" in children with additional educational needs. [22094/25]

166. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Youth to give a detailed account of the use of seclusion and restraint in schools as a means of dealing with "challenging behaviour" in children with additional educational needs, including the most recent figures for the prevalence of seclusion and restraint; the steps taken since the last report on seclusion and restraint in schools from the Ombudsman for…

167. Deputy George Lawlor asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware that persons employed as bus escorts for students in special needs schools are not paid during holiday periods and are entitled to minimum social welfare payments to cover these periods; the plan she has to ensure that such valuable workers are appropriately remunerated in order to attract workers into this important area of work; an…

168. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth her plans to roll out the Government proposal of phone pouches in schools; if she has a timeline for the roll out; if there is a plan as to who will administer this in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22104/25]

169. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will reinstate the previous routes which were available to people, such as teaching assistants already working in education, to allow them to become fully qualified teachers under route 4; and what can be done about the practice of educational institutions preying on the opacity of the teaching council registration system to sell enrolments on…

170. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to confirm that all Ministers of State within her Department have had their ministerial powers delegated to them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22128/25]

171. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if there are plans to increase the minimum age for leaving school from 16; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22197/25]

172. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Youth to significantly increase funding to a national school in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22223/25]

173. Deputy Keira Keogh asked the Minister for Education and Youth when correspondence from her Department will issue to a person in County Mayo (details supplied). [22225/25]

174. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she can confirm that she has in her role as Minister the discretionary powers to provide for a larger central activities space than the standard size for all SEN bases built in certain cases (details supplied); her views on whether given the scale of an extension granted that this school and others with similar large extensions, would require a…

175. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on the proposal to refurbish a school (details supplied) in Limerick to use for special classes; if she is aware that the recently announced second special class at the school is to be located at the original single special classroom; her plans to deal with this obvious overcrowding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2226…